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478. How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt?

Freakonomics Radio

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How to Build Tronger Communities and Fight Partisanship

Brooks: Political polarization is more a feature than a bug. In many political systems, you can find incredible nastiness if you go back a century in american politics or a couple millennia in roman politics. Brooks: How do we get here? What's been driving this intense spike in division and partisanship? It's a perfect fre economics question, actually.

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